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DR. CUTLER was most recently a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln where he worked on extremal graph theory and applications of entropy to combinatorics. Prior to that and immediately after completing his dissertation in 2004, he spent a semester as a postdoctoral researcher at Umea University in Sweden. He studied and researched at Cambridge University and in St. Petersburg. His research interests focus on combinatorics and graph theory. He has presented his work, nationally and internationally, for example, at the National University of Singapore and Aalborg University (Denmark).

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DR. GALSTER completed his doctoral work investigating paleoglaciers in Peru using remote sensing and GIscience. He has served as Research Scientist (also at Lehigh) in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science studying “Quantifying equilibrium line altitudes for paleoglaciers in Peru...” Additionally, he has two recently accepted publications in Geosphere. He has assisted in teaching Methods of Water Quality Analysis, Soil Science, Environmental and Organismal Biology and other undergraduate courses.

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DR. GOODEY was awarded a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship to study enzyme mechanism of dihydrofolate reductase from Escherichia coli at Pennsylvania State University after completing her doctorate in 2003. She mentored and supervised undergraduate students and is co-authoring manuscripts in Biophysical Journal and Biochemistry. She has also published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, among others. Dr. Goodey has presented most recently at the 25th summer Symposium in Molecular Biology at the Pennsylvania State University.

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DR. MOLINA was a member of the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UMDNJ-Newark since 1994. Immediately upon completing his doctoral work in Biochemistry with a minor in Cancer Biology in 1992, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute de Chimie Biologique in Strasbourg, France. He joins CSAM with an established record of numerous honors, an extensive publication list and presentations, grant funding, teaching and mentoring of students. He has focused his research in two areas, cancer and infertility. He has been funded by the NJ State Commission on Cancer Research, the US Department of Defense and the UMDNJ Foundation. He is also co-author of books, monographs and chapters in Review of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, and Biomedical Society Transactions. His teaching, at the graduate level, included courses in endocrinology, molecular techniques, analytical methods, molecular and cell biology and current topics in biochemistry.  

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DR. SCHELVIS joined Michigan State University as a postdoctoral research associate after completing his doctorate in biophysics at the University of Leiden. He has taught at New York University, in the Department of Chemistry. He has successfully obtained grants from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund to study the “Time-Resolved Resonance Raman Characterization of Tryptophan Radicals and Their Role in Electron Transfer in DNA Photolyase,” the National Institutes of Health to investigate “Catalysis of isoniazid action by M. tuberculosis KatG” and the National Science Foundation for the “Characterization of Tryptophan Radical and Flavin Excited State Intermediates in DNA Photolyase.” He has conducted interdisciplinary research with focus on DNA-repair by DNA photolyase and antibiotic activation and resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and has collaborated with researchers at institutions in Scotland, New York, Texas and North Carolina.

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DR. SIEKIERKA has had a 25-year career in the pharmaceutical industry with companies such as Merck and Roche. He joined Johnson & Johnson in 1992 where he held leadership positions and was a key member of a team that developed the patented drug-eluting cipher stent. His most recent position was Director of Research and Development at the Center for Biomaterial and Advanced Technologies. Prior to J & J he was a senior researcher at Merck and Hoffman LaRoche. His area of expertise is immunology. He has collaborative ties with UMDNJ, Johns Hopkins, U. Pennsylvania, and San Antonia Cancer Institute. He holds 5 patents with an additional 11 pending. He has been an adjunct instructor at UMDNJ since 1994. He holds several awards and honors.